Hi, this is a short and stupid question, but how do you enable the HD icon on the desktop to show both the free and total space of the drive? Right now all I have is the total size of the hard drive, but I swear before I had both the free space as well as the total space of the HD. Thanks!
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Show Free Space in Hard Drive Icon
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In Finder, select View/View Options from your Menubar, and you'll see an option to 'Show item info'. Tick the tick box and you'll be able to see the information you desire.
I was just about to ask this question too. My free space seems to have disappeared, and only total space is shown now.
Thats odd. I am using 10.4.10 and after I checked the option I see first the total space, then free space. Please describe 'before'.
Are you using administrator accounts? It doesn't work for some reason with non-admin accounts (longstanding issue).
My standard account:
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My admin account:
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My standard account:
My admin account:
On my non-admin account my Mac partition only shows total space but all of my removable drives show total space and amount free.
